Mukunda Datta dasa is a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada since 1976. He holds a graduate degree in South Asian Languages and Literature from the University of Washington, in Sanskrit and Braja-bhasa. He was made a charter member of the Sastric Advisory Council to the GBC (SAC). Based in Vrndavana (India) since 2003, he currently serves there as a translator for Giriraja Publications (a new division of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust).

The Main SLP filed by MPD on behalf of the Bangalore Society (challenging the Judgement of the Banglaore High court in favor ISKCON reg. at Mumbai) was assigned to the Bench headed by Justice Kabir. Justice Kabir retired in July 2013 and after that the SLP was not listed and no new bench was assigned.

As per general system the SLP should have been gone to the next senior Judge who sat on the Bench along with Justice kabir when this SLP was heard.[...]read more

A few days back, one devotee came up to me and told me how inspired she was to put more faith in the Lord since the time she had heard me mention the phrase – Rakhe Krsna, mare khe in one of my earlier classes in Raichur. I was reflecting on the miraculous incident that occured just the day before and how when the Lord decides to protect, the fortunate living entity beats the odds and survives.

The miraculous sequence of events unfolded before our eyes on the tuesday, the day before the Bakrid. Bakrid is a painful day for the devotees of Lord Krsna as they helplessely and tearfully watch the cruel butcher of the several cows in the lanes and bylanes of area surrounding the Narasimha Giridhari temple. But this Bakrid was different as the Lord had a plan to involve us in a heroic rescue act.[...]read more

(BG 10.8) Now, while engaged in describing the devotion of those who are the most exclusively dedicated to the Lord, He explains the factual situation of the Self, knowledge of which both generates and nourishes such devotion, in the verse beginning aham. I, Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead, am the origin of this entire universe, beginning with Brahma, Rudra and the other demigods.

This same fact can be read in the Atharva Upanisads (Gopala-tapani Up. and Narayana Up.): “It is Krsna who gave knowledge previously to Brahma and who spoke the Vedas to him,” “Then the Supreme Person Narayana desired, `Let Me beget offspring,” “From Narayana Brahma was born. From Narayana Prajapati was born. From Narayana Indra was born. From Narayana the eight Vasus were born. From Narayana the eleven Rudras were born. From Narayana the twelve Adityas were born.”–in which context Narayana is understood to mean Krsna, and “The son of Devaki is the Lord who favors the brahmanas (brahmanyo devaki-putraù).”[...]read more

The silver foils are not very expensive. They are sold by weight. Ordinarily, you can buy a packet of 160 foils for a price between Rs.100 to 200. That is, approximately one rupee per foil. Not only the sweets, now a days it is also applied on fruits. Some Ayurvedic medicines also are wrapped in silver foils.

They are made by hammering thin sheets of silver in middle of booklets made of a bull’s intestines. In other words, after slaughtering a bull, quickly his intestines are removed, and sold to the manufacturers of foils. The skins made of old intestines are of no use. Even one day old intestines cannot be used, because within a few hours they stiffen.[...]read more

“Of all kinds of suffering and bondage arising from various attachments, none is greater than the suffering and bondage arising from attachment to women and intimate contact with those attached to women.” (SB 11.14.30)

Because the experience and urges of sex are so intense, and the syndrome of man/woman relationships surrounding it is so complex, it diverts the conditioned soul’s attention away from Krsna and deludes him more than any other trick of maya. Sometimes the foolish conditioned soul experiences great delight in enjoying sex; at other times he is frustrated and burns in the fire of lust. Or, when spurned by a lover, he suffers mental agony, sometimes so severe that he is driven to kill the loved one, or himself, or both.[...]read more